But history tells us something else:

Russian investments abroad go to Cyprus: the island offers the opportunity to pass tax, with the "guarantees" of euro membership. The economy is small: it is a total of 25 billion euro. Despite this, between 2007 and 2011 "financial entities Cypriots" have "lent" to Russia 40 billion euro per year. According to a German intelligence report, you would find something on the island as 40,000 ghost companies with capital of unknown origin.

This could be the reason for the "punishment" for Russian investors, "guilty" of having prospered the offshore financial center after the adoption of the single currency, the Germans remain convinced that Cyprus can be left to its fate to an island now de facto colonized by Moscow, "the German taxpayer can not pay for the excesses caused by Russian investors with the consent of the legislature of Cyprus, he told a Sunday Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Söder (CSU), in an interview with Bild Zeitung. "

Gazprom the largest Russian company and the biggest extractor of natural gas in the world, and other entities Russians would offer to purchase and recapitalize banks in Cyprus. But the Cypriots seem to have refused to accept the terms Russians. "An evaluation of the loan portfolio, soddisfascente or not to sell the lots in advance gasiferi off shore."

The greek Cypriots have granted an exploration permit to U.S. energy company Noble Energy - already operating in the eastern Mediterranean - to start drilling in the waters of Cyprus for the extraction of natural gas in the so-called "Blocco12" or area "Aphrodite would make this one of the largest offshore natural gas fields ever discovered in the eastern Mediterranean has been the site of perforation and inspections by the U.S. energy company Noble Energy in joint ventures with Israeli partners Delek Energy, LP Drilling, Avner Oil & Gas Ltd. and Ratio Oil Exploration.'s energy companies have discovered huge deposits of hydrocarbons from subsea great strategic potential. Scans, occurred 130 km off the coast of Haifa, have brought to light many as 14 sites, including "Leviathan", "Dalit", "Tamar" and "Aphrodite", which represent the largest natural gas reserves in recent years. fact, explored deposits have unearthed reserves equal to twice that available in the UK.

Sites discovered in Mar del Levante are contested by Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and Lebanon, and not all parties involved have found a satisfactory agreement for the exploitation of offshrore platforms. According to UNCLOS, any State may use the resources of international waters up to 200 nautical miles from its coast, and far beyond the territorial waters of each State (established 12 nautical miles). Israel and Cyprus, however, are just 260 miles apart from each other and in accordance with international law have therefore established a line of demarcation between the waters of the relevance of the two countries, therefore, Cyprus and Israel seem to have already taken steps to enter into agreements to territorial demarcation and exploitation between them.

Cyprus also has a base of ECHELON - (a word of French origin, in Italian band) is a term used by the media and in popular culture to describe the collection of signals intelligence (SIGINT) and analysis of signals managed on behalf of the five signatory states of 'UKUSA Agreement safety (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States, known as AUSCANNZUKUS or five eyes). It has also been described as the only software system which controls the download and dissemination of the interception of satellite communications.

By extension, the Echelon network shows the world system of interception of private communications and public.

"Echelon", the most complex and expensive (30 thousand billion) espionage system in history, developed by the American National Security Agency (NSA) with the British spy service (GCHQ: Government Communications Headquarters) main base at Menwith Hills, in Yorkshire and 10 other bases around the country, as well as those of Cyprus, Turkey, Gibraltar and other countries.

A strategic island "Cyprus" condemned to bankruptcy?

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